Obama, 4 Senators to Discuss Immigration

President Barack Obama will meet later today with Senate Democrats to discuss overhauling the nation’s immigration system, one of the key second-term priorities that he laid out in his State of the Union address.

“Right now, leaders from the business, labor, law enforcement, faith communities –they all agree that the time has come to pass comprehensive immigration reform,” Mr. Obama told a joint-session of Congress Tuesday. “Now is the time to do it. Now is the time to get it done. Now is the time to get it done.”

Mr. Obama will meet with Democratic Sens. Charles Schumer of New York, Dick Durbin of Illinois, Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Michael Bennet of Colorado, according to a White House official. The meeting is set for later in the day Wednesday. The four senators are half of a bipartisan group of lawmakers that has put forward a plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration system…